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Group A: Switzerland vs France - (19/6/16) KO 8pm, BBC1/HD |
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I wonder where they will play him then, instead of who?
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I wonder where they will play him then, instead of who?
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Clear penalty !! Switzerland shud have won and france shud have been fed to the germans in the next rownd!!
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They probably replace James Rodriguez with Payet as i think they might sell him
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Teams sign players to complement squads all the time rather than directly replacing one player, this is why there are more than 11 players in a squad.
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Kingsley Coleman is France's Raheem Sterling. Bemused by the commentators singing his praises - 15 passes with a completion rate of 68% says it all.
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Ah really, I never realised that was how things worked!
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Why would I bring a players club career into something that I was talking about how they played in that particular match?
You said you didn't bring club games into it. I just pointed out that if you had, you wouldn't have criticised him in the way that you did, before and after he came on, AND the comments I read you make in the topic for Belgium's other game. Quote:
He was brought on to try and get a goal (as that is why you tend to bring on a sub striker is it not??) and in that particular match he didn't manage to do so; so that was what I was basing my opinion of him on that night. But he wasn't "poor", he just failed to score in 15 minutes, and you can't have been basing your opinions on that in the posts you made before he was brought on. For example Lukaku played very poorly in the first Belgian match, yet I can recognise that he played well in their second one against the Republic of Ireland, so if Sterling, Origi have better games then I will say so, their clubs don't come into my thinking on that. But it doesn't matter, no need to derail the topic on such a throwaway comment. |
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Thierry Henry has just said that the pitch is the Man of the match
I had a bet on Pogba, will i get a refund |
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Quite funny Owen!
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Clear penalty !! Switzerland shud have won and france shud have been fed to the germans in the next rownd!!
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Crap game really. A shame that penalty wasn't given just to give us some excitement at the end.
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They've been playing prime time in Europe and I'm sure many neutrals have tuned in to watch their talented players set the tournament alight. Quite frankly they've been awful relative to their talents.
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Kingsley Coleman is France's Raheem Sterling. Bemused by the commentators singing his praises - 15 passes with a completion rate of 68% says it all.
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Yeah, he's predominantly hype for me too. A few moments of quality are usually followed with desperate wastefulness.
Because i dont think he has a clue |
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His best team is the one that started the first game I think. Tonight he just wanted to try a couple of others out knowing that France were already though.
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Kingsley Coleman is France's Raheem Sterling. Bemused by the commentators singing his praises - 15 passes with a completion rate of 68% says it all.
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The media always seems to back/ overhype the host nations of football tournaments you hear comments which are clearly not representative of what you actually see, they were singing the praises of a very average Brazil side 2 years ago and I knew the moment Brazil came up against a decent team they would get swallowed up and exposed. The same thing will happen to France although their team as a whole is not as bad as that Brazil team, they will no doubt get found out once they come up against a Spain or an Italy or even dare I say it an England.
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I would have really fancied them to go all the way, if they had Raphael Varane and Karim Benzema in their side as i think the teams weaknesses are defence and attack
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The media always seems to back/ overhype the host nations of football tournaments you hear comments which are clearly not representative of what you actually see, they were singing the praises of a very average Brazil side 2 years ago and I knew the moment Brazil came up against a decent team they would get swallowed up and exposed. The same thing will happen to France although their team as a whole is not as bad as that Brazil team, they will no doubt get found out once they come up against a Spain or an Italy or even dare I say it an England.
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France are abysmal. Will get to the semis due to corrupt UEFA tactics to keep the hosts in until at least that far.
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Benzema is a huge loss as is Varane, Payet appears to be the only player capable of doing anything useful for France. Switzerland should have won that game.
France haven't looked like tournament winners so far but they are the host nation, and Deschamps has done a quite frankly ludicrous amount of dicking around with the starting XI. The knockout stages will define them. |
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France have done enough to win their group. Have to pace yourself in a competition.
For me, the disappointment has been Griezmann, although he's in a different role in the France side to the AM side. Martial has also disappointed. Matuidi hasn't been at his best. Gignac is truly awful. On the plus side, Pogba is a great talent although so far we've only seen moments and he's been unlucky with finishing too. Payet is playing brilliantly. Rami is better than I expected and a strong character to play alongside the more timid Koscielny. I think Deschamps has every idea who his first X1 is in the knock out games. Quite a few of the pitches are awful. They've had more rain than usual in June in many parts of France but they aren't up to scratch in Paris, Marseille, Toulouse and Lille (the worst possibly although Paris Stade de France a close contest). |
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France have done enough to win their group. Have to pace yourself in a competition.
For me, the disappointment has been Griezmann, although he's in a different role in the France side to the AM side. Martial has also disappointed. Matuidi hasn't been at his best. Gignac is truly awful. On the plus side, Pogba is a great talent although so far we've only seen moments and he's been unlucky with finishing too. Payet is playing brilliantly. Rami is better than I expected and a strong character to play alongside the more timid Koscielny. I think Deschamps has every idea who his first X1 is in the knock out games. Quite a few of the pitches are awful. They've had more rain than usual in June in many parts of France but they aren't up to scratch in Paris, Marseille, Toulouse and Lille (the worst possibly although Paris Stade de France a close contest). Never rated Matuidi!! |
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